Just minutes ago, I happened to spot this image while searching for bearded irises with 'autumn' in their names...and out of the blue, I just happened to see it. Unfortunately the blogger is not keen on people borrowing his images (despite free all on google image) and I'm not in the mood to entangle myself with a problematic situation.
http://historiciris.blogspot.c...
Its very likely, one of Ron Busch's Seedlings.
The blogger hadn't disclosed whether this 'Busch seedling' have PBF or not
So here's my historic findings...mine was sold to me as 'Lavender Mustard in 2012,' it bloomed in 2014. Trader continued selling same noid as Lavender Mustard on an auctioning site online and I began the task of identifying of attempting to identify this noid (a rather modernised iris).
I was nowhere near cracking it when 2015 rolled in and the the season starts up again, I noticed the same trader, renamed her 'Lavender Mustard' to 'Affaire.'
Perplexed as to how she identified it as 'Affaire' it was because so many traders told her so. I provided images to her, denoting the differences between the noid and 'Affaire.' It was enough to convince her to change the labeling to 'Affaire (??)'
You may as well still refer to it as 'Affaire!'
Wasn't too concern about people believing they think they have the real 'affaire' as I dont think all are fanatical iris collectors...or iris fans. I think the majority of those who bought this noid, would be just ordinary gardeners (but even then, it could still pose a problem in future years to come for someone like myself, attempting to identify it).
And just last week, I've discovered the same noid listed on a NZ commercial iris grower's, as a newly released iris called 'Affaire.'
And there's no evidence of 'Affaire' ever being brought into NZ.
What do you guys and gals think? It sure doesnt look like anyone could confirm the presence of PBF on the real 'Affaire'....I'm toying with the idea of going after Barry Blyth for confirmation as a simple yes or no would take out half the challenge...but I dont want to bother him with this
but to look for people who have Affaires growing in their gardens
